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I have 256 MB of ram but when i go to system properties
that is listed as 223 MB Why this Is happening?
 
Hi

Does your OS have on-board vedio card or internal modem
If yes, they would take up about 32MB of physical ram


Pete


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I have 256 MB of ram but when i go to system properties
that is listed as 223 MB Why this Is happening
 
The video card would use up 32 megs of RAM, yes, but
under system properties it should still show the full
256MB.

Try rebooting the computer and going into the bios (the
very first screen that you see should say somewhere the
keystroke to get in), and see what that says. If it reads
256, then there's a problem with your OS reading the RAM
(are they two different brands of RAM?). If it reads 223,
then it means that part of the RAM chip is fried and you
need to get a new one (if it really bothers you).

Hope this helps,

Nick
 
No! The 32MB will be reserved for the video card and not considered to be
system memory.
 
I had a Dell Desktop that was shipped with a 64MB onboard
video card and 256MB DDR RAM.

When the computer was first shipped to me, under both
BIOS and WinXP, the comp showed only 212MB of RAM. I ran
the Dell Diagnostics and it showed that the "missing"
44MB of RAM were faulty, i.e. part of the chip was not
working. Hence I say fried. (Dell replaced the chip
obviously...)

As for the onboard video card, yes part of the RAM will
be devoted towards the video card, but the full amount
should still show up in BIOS and under system properties.
My desktop shows the full 512 MB of RAM in it (after I
intalled more), and my laptop uses an ATI 9200 Mobility
(Shared Memory, i.e. using some RAM for video purposes)
32MB card, and yet under both BIOS and WinXP I see the
full 512MB of RAM.

Nick
 
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